Foreign clothing

Author: Yao Yanfang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Since the beginning of recorded human history, clothing, or more colloquially, attire, has been regarded as one of the fundamental needs of humans, alongside food and shelter. However, people have always viewed clothing solely from a practical perspective, understanding it as such while often overlooking its role as a part of human life, with its own specific significance. Because everyone is a part of social life, with needs that differ from others, and these needs must also be met in unique ways. Clothing, therefore, has a close relationship with personal needs and emotions. This book introduces the distinctive traditional and branded clothing of some major countries in Asia, Europe, America, Oceania, Africa, and the Arab world, and we believe readers will benefit from it. The book is divided into six parts and fourteen chapters to introduce knowledge about foreign clothing, hoping readers will gain from it.